Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Well, like you say in a later post, the GFB calls are mostly ineffective. In fact, if they're out sick, it may take them another day or so to recover after having to go see the doc, thus making it worse. Wrt the graph you saw, I don't doubt any of that, it's human nature. The question is how to minimize it, you can choose the carrot or the stick, the company chooses the stick. Do you want to put money on which one works better?
They're trying to minimize usage of a contractual benefit. They wish we were all like a certain pilot who flew sick during his career, errr sorry, never called in sick. 🙄
Yeah, I absolutely CANNOT stand when companies point to the "good" employees that never called out sick, but especially pilots. Does anyone really believe that he went his entire career without ever flying sick? Holding that up as some kind of achievement just shows the unrealistic expectation/complete lack of knowledge about what flying sick does to you and the crew members you're flying with that some in mngt have for us.